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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

What to do my puppy vomit and diarrhea?

Last weekend, we planned a family outing to
Genting Highland Pahang day trip. We left our beloved little brother,KOPI
(Puppy’s name) at home with a bowl of dog crackers and water. It would definitely enough for 1 day.

So,we left without any hesitated. Next day,
the puppy welcoming us weak wave of tail, that was strange. It looked sick and
weak . Laid there and breathed heavily.

The food in bowl was untouched, with few
gross watery substances on floor, suspected the vomit. Instead, could see the
watery poops around the garden. At first , we really thought it might been
poison / ingested some pesticide.

The blood poops. It smelled stink, fishy smell.

However, when I was cleaning the floor.The
mystery solved. Could found bones in
vomits. (It remind me about our last dinner was pork feet )

What was so
importance about the last dinner?

“Yup actually when your dog had been
allergy / food poisoning / not feeling well, normally the veterinary will asked
to know the last meal. Most of the vomit and diarrhea symptoms related with the
food the dog took.”

For my puppy case, it actually our fault.
We did gave few of the pork big bones for it. Well, I suspected the puppy too
small, instead of chew it well, it simply swallowed it in the big chunks. The
big fragment of bones, cause some digestion problem in the stomach. The worst ,
it might hurt/poked the stomach lining and cause inflammation, end up to be gastroenteritis.

This is one of the reasons why the dog kept
on vomit and diarrhea. It basically couldn’t ingested any food/ water. Even it drank only
few sips of water, it end up throw out everything. When there nothing inside
the stomach it even throw out yellow liquid, gastric juice when ever it tried
to drink water. Looked at the skinny body , hurt in my heart.

Its very emergency. Unfortunately it was
weekend night and all the clinic closed, they requested us to make an
appointment on Monday. 2 days more, I m not sure could it make through it.

Emergency rescues steps I done to my dog.

1. Check for the dehydration.

Puppies tend
to dehydrate faster than adult dog. Refer on the internet; I check the skin
elasticity for the dehydration level. The skin took few second longer than
before back to origin after stretched indicated dehydration condition. Another
method, check on the gum. The dehydration dog shown pink salmon gum with thin
film of saliva. Pressed on the gum and release,to see the capillary refilled
time, normally dehydration condition took more than 10- 15 seconds. If your dog fulfilled all the
dehydration requirements on top, please hurry up refer to veterinary.

My condition, I am using my general medical
knowledge. I make an instant “oral rehydration solution” for the dog. When too
much of vomit and diarrhea, it loss water and electrolytes in body. The body
need salt for body function, and sugar as glucose- energy supply. So mix with
the ratio of 1: 3 for salt: sugar and dilute with water. Feed the dog with
springe in very small amount ,cause we dun wish to stimulate the vomit again.
Another alternative way, I put little
bit of syrup / honey in the month to give glucose (energy source)

2. Check for the gastro- upset.

Press on
the stomach and investigated the reaction of dog. It gave those uncomfortable
reaction when you press on stomach indicated might due to pain sensation. When
hit on the stomach, hear the sound , as there was air inside , it mean
bloating/might due to food poisoning.

Non stop vomiting even one sip of water, watery blood vomit.

I suspected my dog might hurt the stomach
due to ingest sharp and hard bone, it give pain sensation when I press on the
stomach. Also I heard the drooling sound in tummy. I gave the dog 1/5 of the250
Magnesium trisilicate tablet to relieve the gastric juice act toward stomach.
It supposed to chew and swallow, but due to its condition, I diluted in water
first.

3. Check for fever symptoms.

By touching on the body , my
puppy body temperature extremely high
and running nose, extremely weak. ( The
normal healthy will normally having dry nose) Another general knowledge to
indicated your pet healthy status, instead the by those abnormal activities,
the physical appearance also give sign. Easier by observing the fur/hair. Sick
pet normally shown messy and fur , shown not as shining /as glossy as usual. These
apply for cat and dog.

My puppy body temperature was higher than
before, and I assumed it was having fever. So, I gave 1/5 of the 500mg paracetamol tablet by
dissolving in water.

4. The vomit sensation

The dog not cure
even I tried to feed as small as possible amount of water. It throw out again
and again, including those medication. The concept of vomit is when the
food/water go down in the stomach, it
enhance the stretch of stomach muscle and expelled it.

Finally , no choices, I feed it with 1/5
anti-vomit medication, Loperamide tablet, to stop the vomit. . It really need
to go to veterinary as fast as possible and get infusion of glucose, to stop
dehydration. If dehydration continues it might cause die.

5. Applied the 12 hours fasting rules for
dog

Small amount of water and glucose allowed. After 12 hours, when the
condition get better. I feed it with those blend diet, small amount but
frequent. Suggested meal, porridge and boiled chicken. I make the quite watery porridge
and chopped the chicken in really small, reduce the work of stomach as much as
possible. Prevent to give something like hard or hard to digested , like
biscuit.

6. Restricted the meal/diet until the
situation get better.

Slowly back to normal meal, in the same time keep an eyes
on any improvement. If the condition turned bad , straight away bring to vet.

Monday , the condition was still unstable. I
really thought we gonna loss it.

We rushed it to the vet clinic early in the morning. A pretty
veterinary with big eyes , and talk in
lovely voice came . She suspected the dog might infected with certain types of
virus / bacteria(infection), she prescribed antibiotic injection + anti emetic medicine with addition of one
vitamin C injection to enhance the body immune system.

Blessed god, the puppy is now as healthy as before.

Good appetite and sleep. It recovered very fast.

*I am just sharing my experience when
urgent , please not to refer it. Veterinary always the best choices for your
pets*